The Virtuosa Organisation (PDF E-book)

By Graham Williams, Dorian Haarhoff, Peter Fox

ISBN: 9781869225254

Publishing Date: February 2015

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This is a book about people in organisations
developing love for themselves, others, communities and nature. It
offers an opportunity to see afresh, to envisage courageously and to
position yourself differently. To bring hearts, minds and wills to bear
on the world around us. The life we live inside our organisations
influences every other part of our lives.
Here is a way to embrace
the philosophy and practice of becoming a virtuous organisation and
giving a dazzling performance. The book helps you to define where you
are in your current experience of your organisation, and how you can
shift things within yourself and around you.

This is more than an
adaptive or compliance process. It is about necessary, compelling and
radical change and the authors show how it can, and has been done:

Seeing the need.

Arriving at the right values.

Aligning individual and organisation values

Determining appropriate behaviour indicators.

Entrenching the values so that they become spontaneously lived virtues

The
mind-set, methods and techniques used during the process are important
in each of these steps, especially the last where precious few have
succeeded. Virtues drawn from the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci,
and which span all cultures and generations, illustrate what is
possible.

The book includes:

Choosing and prioritising values

How are you living your personal values

Are we a congruent organisation?

Using anecdote circles to find out what shape your business is in

Personal mindfulness checklist

Do we have organisational blind-spots?

Journaling

What shadow-side factors should we be aware of in our organisation?

How Integrated are we as an Organisation?

The seeds of love

Ethical behaviour

Putting balance into the balance scorecard

Readiness for the journey

About the authors

Terrence Gargiulo, MMHS. President of MAKINGSTORIES

Are
you open to a renaissance of hope? What does it mean to soar in the
sacred space of an Organisational geometry that frees its citizens to
discern fields of dreams? The authors have crafted a dynamic tapestry of
stories, poetry, images and metaphors to recalibrate our compasses. We
are invited to emancipate ourselves from irrelevant and irreverent myths
of business. Be well advised this is not another rabbit hole of
management jargon. The authors have mixed an alchemical elixir of
reflective propositions to transform our thoughts into motions and take
us from the realm of possible to actual. This is a call to action and
none of us living in today’s world have the luxury to ignore it.
Virtuosa is a contribution of heart and soul that will not leave you
unchanged. I urge you to step out of your comfort zone and embrace this
book’s set of tools to initiate the important work that lies ahead for
all of us…to reclaim the integration of each precious moment to
something greater than our self.

Peter Christie, MBA lecturer

The
authors coherently, influentially and comprehensively confirm the
growing realisation that the business of business is much more than
business. Through invoking historical and biographical accounts,
entertaining anecdotes and other stories, and a detailed case study, the
book outlines powerful concepts and principles promoting sustainable
enterprise of the future. The book should be prescribed reading for all
MBA students.

This
book is a powerful presentation of some of the issues associated with
organisations and society and the failure of conventional methods to
tackle them. It presents a model of human behaviour and interaction
which is aspirational in nature.

Paul Smith, Key Note Speaker, Author of Lead with a Story

We
spend most of our waking hours invested in an activity called ‘work’
that we accept as necessarily selfish–out to enrich ourselves and
shareholders at the expense of consumers, society, and the planet. We
satisfy our guilt by promising ourselves that we’ll feed our souls,
support charitable causes, and save the environment in our spare time,
whenever we find some. But what if there was another way? What if you
could make the world a better place while you were at work? Read this
book and you can.

This is a book about people in organisations
developing love for themselves, others, communities and nature. It
offers an opportunity to see afresh, to envisage courageously and to
position yourself differently. To bring hearts, minds and wills to bear
on the world around us. The life we live inside our organisations
influences every other part of our lives.
Here is a way to embrace
the philosophy and practice of becoming a virtuous organisation and
giving a dazzling performance. The book helps you to define where you
are in your current experience of your organisation, and how you can
shift things within yourself and around you.

This is more than an
adaptive or compliance process. It is about necessary, compelling and
radical change and the authors show how it can, and has been done:

Seeing the need.

Arriving at the right values.

Aligning individual and organisation values

Determining appropriate behaviour indicators.

Entrenching the values so that they become spontaneously lived virtues

The
mind-set, methods and techniques used during the process are important
in each of these steps, especially the last where precious few have
succeeded. Virtues drawn from the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci,
and which span all cultures and generations, illustrate what is
possible.

The book includes:

Choosing and prioritising values

How are you living your personal values

Are we a congruent organisation?

Using anecdote circles to find out what shape your business is in

Personal mindfulness checklist

Do we have organisational blind-spots?

Journaling

What shadow-side factors should we be aware of in our organisation?

How Integrated are we as an Organisation?

The seeds of love

Ethical behaviour

Putting balance into the balance scorecard

Readiness for the journey

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Graham Williams, CMC, B.Com Hons, B.A. is a certified management consultant, thought leader, speaker, and author who has worked in a large number of countries and sectors around the world. An essential component of his ‘motivational fingerprint’ and forte is to overcome severe organisational blockages by installing creative, healing solutions – from concept to implementation. He focuses on the use of narrative, anecdote and metaphor as critical contributors to successful business interventions. He wrote Centre-ing Customer Satisfaction, Revelling in Transition and Reflections for 3H Leaders and The Halo and the Noose: The Power of Story Listening in Business Life.

Dorian Haarhoff, D Phil English Literature University of York, England is a poet, facilitator, speaker, mentor, narrative practitioner, and author. He has held academic posts in Namibia, South Africa, Canada and the USA. Dorian is the author of The Writer’s Voice: a workbook for writers in Africa and several poetry anthologies. He has successfully transitioned from the academic to the business world, and with Graham co-authored The Halo and the Noose and Story Matters @ Work.

Peter Fox. B.A. (Hons), Dipl. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy [SAIP]. Peter majors in spiritual direction and mentoring, and is a workshop facilitator, life coach, palliative care educator, pastoral and grief therapist, Presbyterian Minister and author. He also does trauma debriefing. He recently resigned after 17 years looking after the spiritual care side of St. Luke’s Hospice, and runs a private counselling practice. Peter co-authored Dying: a practical guide for the Journey.

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